Assessing organizational climatepsychometric properties of the CLIOR Scale

  1. Peña Suárez, Elsa 1
  2. Muñiz Fernández, José 1
  3. Campillo Álvarez, Ángela 1
  4. Fonseca Pedrero, Eduardo 2
  5. García Cueto, Eduardo 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

  2. 2 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
Psicothema

ISSN: 0214-9915

Año de publicación: 2013

Volumen: 25

Número: 1

Páginas: 137-144

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.7334/PSICOTHEMA2012.260 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

Antecedentes: el clima organizacional es el conjunto de percepciones que comparten los trabajadores de un determinado ámbito laboral. El objetivo central de este trabajo es la construcción de una nueva escala para evaluar el clima organizacional y el estudio de sus propiedades psicométricas. Método: la muestra estaba formada por 3.163 trabajadores del ámbito sanitario, un 88,7% trabajaban en hospitales y un 11,3% en servicios de Atención Primaria. Un 80% eran mujeres y un 20% hombres, con una edad media de 51,9 años y una desviación típica de 6,28. Resultados: la escala construida está formada por 50 ítems tipo Likert, con un coeficiente alfa de 0,97 y una estructura esencialmente unidimensional. Los índices de discriminación de los ítems son todos superiores a 0,40, y ninguno de los ítems muestra un funcionamiento diferencial respecto al sexo. Se desarrolló una versión corta de la escala de 15 ítems, con índices de discriminación superiores a 0,40, coeficiente alfa de 0,94 y estructura unidimensional. Conclusiones: los resultados obtenidos indican que la nueva escala desarrollada tiene unas propiedades psicométricas adecuadas, permitiendo una evaluación fiable y válida del clima organizacional.

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